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post #1 of 31
6/25/10 at 7:14pm
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Unbelievably stupid broad! Obviously she failed geography. Maybe she should have looked at a map before she opened her trap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaBkJSPXtk
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post #2 of 31
6/25/10 at 7:31pm
That is so sad.
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post #3 of 31
6/25/10 at 7:37pm
I think sad pretty much covers it.
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post #4 of 31
6/26/10 at 4:32am
I wish they would have panned back to her while her fellow board member corrected her.

Like they say, don't worry about Obama, he will be out of office after a certain amount of time. Worry about the people like this poor, uninformed person that voted for him. They will always be out there.
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post #5 of 31
6/26/10 at 5:43am
When I was training new truck drivers, the first thing I taught them was how to read a map. You'd be surprised how few have ever even looked at a map!

And, before they were graduated from the program, they had to pass a test where they were given a blank map of the US (no words or state names, only state borders), and they had to fill it in.

You'd be surprised how often a driver would call from somewhere far removed from where he was supposed to be, with no idea what happened.

Don't they teach these skills in school, any more?
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post #6 of 31
6/26/10 at 5:56am
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post
When I was training new truck drivers, the first thing I taught them was how to read a map. You'd be surprised how few have ever even looked at a map!

And, before they were graduated from the program, they had to pass a test where they were given a blank map of the US (no words or state names, only state borders), and they had to fill it in.

You'd be surprised how often a driver would call from somewhere far removed from where he was supposed to be, with no idea what happened.

Don't they teach these skills in school, any more?
I have a sad feeling the GPS will do to map reading what calculators did to basic math skills.

P.S. I can read a map. The challenge for me was re-folding it.
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post #7 of 31
6/26/10 at 6:35am
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I have a sad feeling the GPS will do to map reading what calculators did to basic math skills.

P.S. I can read a map. The challenge for me was re-folding it.
When I was in school, my parents wouldn't let me use a calculator for my math homework, until I was in Pre-Calc and it was required (I still didn't use it that often). Best thing they ever did for me.

Oh, and I had to learn all 50 states and their capitals. I don't remember them all now (this was about 17 years ago), but I did have to learn them.
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post #8 of 31
6/26/10 at 6:46am
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I have a sad feeling the GPS will do to map reading what calculators did to basic math skills.

P.S. I can read a map. The challenge for me was re-folding it.
I still haven't got map folding figured out.

While I love GPS and can't live without my Garmin, I am a visual person. I want to see the big map picture. I can't imagine never having learned the location of all 50 (not 57 Mr. Obama, lol) states. At one time I knew all the capitals too because my daughter had to memorize them in school, so we learned them together. I've forgotten many, since that was 30 years ago, but I'll bet that I could still work a map puzzle quickly.
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post #9 of 31
6/26/10 at 7:34am
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When I was in school, my parents wouldn't let me use a calculator for my math homework, until I was in Pre-Calc and it was required (I still didn't use it that often). Best thing they ever did for me.

Oh, and I had to learn all 50 states and their capitals. I don't remember them all now (this was about 17 years ago), but I did have to learn them.
I not only learned them, but I've been in every one of them.
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post #10 of 31
6/26/10 at 7:38am
Ah, yes, the old questions.

"Do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky 'lewis-ville' or 'louey-ville?'"

Neither. I pronounce the capital of Kentucky, "Frank-fort."
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post #11 of 31
6/26/10 at 8:37am
I love maps! All kinds.

I am shocked on a regular basis when people call and want directions to our business. When I tell them to, "go west on Cheyenne off I-15," many people ask me if I mean, "turn right or left." Duh!

If you don't have your north-south-east-west down how can you ever expect not to get lost in life?
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post #12 of 31
6/26/10 at 10:28am
What does a county supervisor do anyway? I can't imagine Manhattan having one. Manhattan is its own county called "New York County"

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Don't they teach these skills in school, any more?
Well I went to junior high school in 1982 and 1983 and there was no geography. None in grade school. None in high school as well.
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post #13 of 31
6/26/10 at 10:32am
Geography was set aside so teachers can teach sex education.
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post #14 of 31
6/26/10 at 3:16pm
Idiot politicians are EVERYWHERE. Heck look at Joe Barton. I guess in his schools they set aside teaching physics so they could teach creation "science."
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post #15 of 31
6/26/10 at 3:42pm
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Idiot politicians are EVERYWHERE. Heck look at Joe Barton. I guess in his schools they set aside teaching physics so they could teach creation "science."
The heathen. Physics is the mac daddy and the daddy mac of all sciences.
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post #16 of 31
6/26/10 at 3:52pm
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The heathen. Physics is the mac daddy and the daddy mac of all sciences.
Nah, physics is just applied math :p
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post #17 of 31
6/26/10 at 7:17pm
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Nah, physics is just applied math :p
"MOM" takes no prisoners.

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Idiot politicians are EVERYWHERE. Heck look at Joe Barton. I guess in his schools they set aside teaching physics so they could teach creation "science."
535 of them come to mind right away. A lot more than that when you count the current administration and the ones that preceded it.
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post #18 of 31
6/26/10 at 8:06pm
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Well I went to junior high school in 1982 and 1983 and there was no geography. None in grade school. None in high school as well.
When I used to teach World History, the students had to pass a map test on whatever country we were studying. That was in 1980.
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post #19 of 31
6/26/10 at 8:13pm
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When I used to teach World History, the students had to pass a map test on whatever country we were studying. That was in 1980.
What grade?
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post #20 of 31
6/26/10 at 9:00pm
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What does a county supervisor do anyway? I can't imagine Manhattan having one. Manhattan is its own county called "New York County"



Well I went to junior high school in 1982 and 1983 and there was no geography. None in grade school. None in high school as well.
I was in junior high in 82-83 as well. We knew the states and capitols, as well as how to read maps, and in 8th grade we were drilled on where the countries were in Europe, Asia and Africa. Don't ask me ALL the state capitols but I remember most of them.
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post #21 of 31
6/26/10 at 9:26pm
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I am shocked on a regular basis when people call and want directions to our business. When I tell them to, "go west on Cheyenne off I-15," many people ask me if I mean, "turn right or left." Duh!

If you don't have your north-south-east-west down how can you ever expect not to get lost in life?
I can't do n/s/e/w directions. I don't know why, but without a compass I just have NO idea which way is which. I get around OK. I can read a map, but as soon as I put the map or compass down, I couldn't tell you which way is north to save my life.

When my brother was 4, he could draw maps of the U.S., complete with the states all in the right places (approximately ) and labeled with the state names. We knew all the state capitals and quite a few international capitals. We were homeschooled so I don't know what the public schools were teaching.

I read somewhere that most people in the U.S. can't pick North America out on an unmarked map.
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post #22 of 31
6/27/10 at 5:45am
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Originally Posted by c1atsite View Post
What grade?
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High school.
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post #23 of 31
6/27/10 at 6:23am
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High school.
What state? Texas?
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post #24 of 31
6/27/10 at 7:46am
First Pennsylvania, then Texas. But a private school.

I don't know if the public school kids did it or not.
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post #25 of 31
6/27/10 at 12:33pm
I love to study geography, and it goes much deeper than just locating a place on a map. For me it is another extension of history because geography also encompasses the weather of a region, the agriculture and economy of a people or country, and also the people themselves.
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post #26 of 31
6/27/10 at 2:28pm
When we lived in Waldron, AR, we "sponsored" a fourth-grade class. We were driving a truck all over the U.S., so we collected postcards, souvenirs, photos, etc., and brought them back to the class. We got them a huge laminated map that they could mark with our travels, which we reported to them on a regular basis. We told them exactly where we went, what routes we followed, what we hauled, what we saw, etc. The teacher said that those kids had the highest test scores she had ever seen in their tests.
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post #27 of 31
6/27/10 at 2:33pm
That was a great idea, and a good way for the kids to learn.

I learned how to read a map in the Army. One of the things we had to do in truck driver training was to plan out a round trip from Cincinnati to California according to the hours of service rules. At the time you were allowed 10 hours driving. You had to include your route and plan for meals and breaks along the way. It was a very good learning exercise.
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post #28 of 31
6/27/10 at 3:42pm
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When we lived in Waldron, AR, we "sponsored" a fourth-grade class. We were driving a truck all over the U.S., so we collected postcards, souvenirs, photos, etc., and brought them back to the class. We got them a huge laminated map that they could mark with our travels, which we reported to them on a regular basis. We told them exactly where we went, what routes we followed, what we hauled, what we saw, etc. The teacher said that those kids had the highest test scores she had ever seen in their tests.
That is an awesome story mrblanche, thank you for sharing it. I bet those kids STILL remember you and always will.
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post #29 of 31
6/27/10 at 5:18pm
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That is an awesome story mrblanche, thank you for sharing it. I bet those kids STILL remember you and always will.
We still have our house up there. My brother is living in it. When we go up for the occasional weekend, if we go shopping in town, it's not unusual for people to come up and introduce themselves as kids in those classes. This was about 15 years ago, so they're all adults now.
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post #30 of 31
7/17/10 at 8:27am
Somebody enlighten me here. Don't they teach geography in school anymore.
If I remember correctly we studied it in grammar school. We were actually passed a blank map and told to fill in the names of the states.
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